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April 23
It's Betty's final farewell this
week on Corrie. She wanted 'Joyous' and so black was banned and
colours were in as memories were recalled and eyes filled with tears
in the wake at the Rovers Return. Gordon gives a heart-breaking
speech, reading a letter Betty penned just a week before she died,
and Betty's photo in her frame presides on the bar as friends and
customers raised a glass in her memory. But Betty's passing doesn't
go without ruffling a few feathers, well, it's what she would have
wanted. First off, Rita and Emily find a letter in Betty's house
when they're clearing out her stuff. It's a letter from Annie Walker
in 1984 bequeathing the Rovers Return to Betty in Annie's will. It's
a bequest that Betty had clearly turned down but sends St. Ella into
a tailspin wondering if the pub's rightly hers. Sadly, it still is.
The second secret Betty leaves behind is an envelope with her secret
hotpot recipe inside and for some unknown reason, she leaves it to
Sean. He can't cook to save his life and tries and fails to knock up
the hotpot only to cock it up. And then he only goes and drops the
recipe into the dish, soaking it through. Has Betty's recipe really
gone for good? She should have left it to Roy ? who would have
treasured it and kept Betty's memory burning bright. And the scene
that brought a lump to my throat came when Norris totted up Betty's
paper bill in the Kabin, brought the unpaid paper bill up to date
with money from his own pocket and then wrote, very carefully, very
neatly, very Norris, next to her name: Account Closed.
Elsewhere this week terrible Terry plays a wonderful
pantomime villain who makes you want to boo and hiss every time he's
on screen. He takes Tommy under his wing by telling him lies that
Tommy knows nowt about. Tyrone (or as Terry likes to call him:
Tirrrrrrroan) knows how evil Terry can be but Tommy's just glad to
have his dad around and the fact that he gets a decent storyline at
last. Terry ramps up the tension between Tommy and Tirrrrrrroan
until they come to blows and Tommy jacks his job in at the garage to
work for Terry's new lapdancing club ? Se7enth Heaven - on Viaduct
Street. The residents rebel when they hear of Terry's venture with
Norris pointing out that they don't want mucky women turning the
Street into a den of iniquity after a lapdancer comes into the
Rovers and goes through her raunchy routine for Terry at the bar.
"She could have had someone's eye out with that bosom," Norris
complains. Determined to put a stop to the building work going on in
the lapdance club, Rita, Norris, Emily, Roy and a couple of the
young 'uns set up camp inside the unit and determine not to be moved
until Terry backs off. "We've got a rota, you know!" yells Norris
through the door to Terry, who's bemused by the sight of the senior
sit-in. "Never underestimate the power of a rota!"
Over at
the factory, Sally goes all giddy kipper getting ideas above her
station when she gatecrashes a meeting that Carla's got with a
customer in the Bistro. "You need to open your mind!" she tells
Carla who retorts: "And you need to keep yer gob shut!". Not only is
Sally's gob well and truly shut, it's gobsmacked when Carla finds
out that Frank's left his Underpants, sorry Underworld shares to her
in his will so she'll not be needing Sally's money after all. Sally
sulks back to her sewing machine, skulks home to the sofa and after
a glass of wine with Kevin, the Websters have a snog. Oh, silly
Sally.
Meanwhile, Peter finds out that Ken's been letting
Leanne see little Simon behind his back and over the road. Peter's
not best pleased, as you can guess, and goes storming into Ken's,
arguing with Leanne and making Simon cry. But Peter won't be moved
and drags Simon home with him telling him that he won't be seeing
Leanne any more. "Grandad said you've fallen out of love with
Leanne," says Simon, in tears. "I have, yes, it's a grown-up thing,"
replies Peter before Simon goes: "Well it's a kid thing too, because
I've fallen out of love with you!".
Poor Audrey, though. She
has a heart attack this week after the salon war reaches breaking
point and she ends up in th'ospickle strapped to machines with tubes
everywhere. David blames himself and feeling guilty for causing such
grief to his granny, he pops into see her but she's having none of
it. She doesn't rant and rave at his presence. Much worse, in a very
quiet voice, she simply tells her grandson: "Go away, David. Go
away." Unexpectedly, Audrey's illness looks like bringing together
Gail and Lewis as they join forces to protect Audrey from David and
Kylie stealing the salon. Oooh, just watch, I bet Lewis will be
after Gail soon.
And that's just about that for this week.
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This week's writers were Damon Rochefort, Simon
Crowther, Ellen Taylor and Mark Burt. Find out more about the
Coronation Street writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
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